8th Meeting of the Parties to the Framework Agreement on the Sava River Basin: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Croatia, Republic of Serbia and Republic of Slovenia was held on October 24, 2019 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The meeting was attended by high level delegations from the Parties, as well as representatives of the invited guests from international community.

State delegations were led by Mr. Mirko Šarović, Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mrs. Elizabeta Kos, Assistant Minister of Environment and Energy of the Republic of Croatia, Mr. Željko Radošević, State Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management of the Republic of Serbia, and Mrs. Vesna Ugrinovski, Acting Director General, Directorate for Water and Investment, Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning of the Republic of Slovenia. The meeting was attended by invited guests - representatives of Montenegro, European Commission, UNDP, Danube Commission, ICPDR, US Embassy (Zagreb), World Bank, INBO – International Network of Basin Organizations, GWP-CEE, Regional Cooperation Council, OSCE, WWF Adria and the President of the Sava Youth Parliament.

The key objective of the Meeting was to consider the status of implementation of the FASRB in the period between two meetings of the Parties, as well as key challenges ahead, particularly those related to the cooperation in the river basin management, flood risk management, rehabilitation of navigation and exchange of information relevant to the basin.

First Sava Flood Risks Management Plan proposed by the Sava Commission was approved at the Meeting and representatives of the Parties to the FASRB adopted a joint Declaration, as the final act of the Meeting, expressing their satisfaction with the progress and concrete results in implementation of the FASRB and providing the guidance for further cooperation within the framework of the International Sava River Basin Commission.

Next, the 9th meeting of the Parties to the Parties to the Framework Agreement on the Sava River Basin will be held in the Republic of Croatia in 2021.